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Auction Name Irish Interest Book Auction Total Sales (EUR) 46,701.71
Auction Date May 19, 2021 - May 19, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 27,125.00
Sale Number #51921 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 43,485.00
Total Lots 579
Sold Lots 494 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 33,055.00
% of Lots Sold 85.32% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 52,140.00
Unsold Lots 85 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
329

Thomas Kinsella. The Tain – Translated by Kinsella from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge.

1969 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,097.29
232

A c.1790's Map of Kingdom of Ireland divided into Provinces, Counties and Baronies, showing the Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns, Villages, Barracks, Mountains, Lakes, Bogs, Bridges, Rivers, Ferries, Passes;

c.1790's EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 715.55
433

Seamus Heaney. North.

1975 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 518.15
9

Gaelic Sport - The All-Action G.A.A. Family Magazine - 71 Issues - 1980-1989

 1980-1989 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 493.48
569

Thomas ThomsonWestern Himalaya and Tibet: a narrative of a journey through the mountains of Northern India during the years 1847-1852.

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 493.48
55

John Derricke, The Images of Ireland, ed John Small,

1883 EUR 150.00 - 220.00 EUR 468.81
350

An Exact Abridgment of all Irish Statutes: from first session of Parliament in third year of King Edward II to eighth year of his present Majesty King George II. by N. Robbins, Esq.

 1736 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 468.81
4

G.A.A. Interest - Box of Publications - 85 issues of Hogan Stand incl. Annuals

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 444.13
8

Gaelic Sport - The All-Action G.A.A. Family Magazine - 51 Issues - 1970-1979

 1970-1979 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 419.46
10

Gaelic Sport - The All-Action G.A.A. Family Magazine - 70 Issues - 1990-2006

 1990-2006 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 419.46
74

Poor Law Union and Lunacy Inquiry Commission – Ireland.

EUR 380.00 - 420.00 EUR 419.46
3

Gaelic World - c.185 issues - 1979-2006

 1979-2006 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 394.78
7

Gaelic Sport - The All-Action G.A.A. Family Magazine - 16 Issues 1963-1969

 1963-1969 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 394.78
262

Eight volumes on the Clergy of the Church of Ireland in a number of dioceses. An update of Canon Leslie’s original work published in the 1930s.

 1930s. EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 394.78
430

[Rare Kilkenny work]. A Discourse of the Round Towers of Ireland in which the Errors of the various writers on the subject are detected and confuted by John Flanagan.

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 394.78
154

William Butler Yeats. Per Amica Silentia Lunae.

1918 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 370.11
401

W.B. Yeats. Reveries over Childhood and Youth.

1916 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 370.11
47

Rose Barton. Familiar London.

1904 EUR 300.00 - 325.00 EUR 345.44
2

G.A.A. Interest - Box of Publications - A Season Of Sunday's x 8; Our Games x 4; Hurling & Football Annual x 3; and five other various

 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 320.76
5

G.A.A. Interest - Box of Publications - Cúl Sport x 2; Gaelic Games x 6; Breaking Ball x 7; and High Ball x 23

 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 320.76
371

John McGahern. Memoir.

2005 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 320.76
295

Irish Eucharistic Congress 1932 - The Congress News, April 26, 1941

 1941 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 296.09
370

John McGahern. That They May Face The Rising Sun.

2002 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 296.09
300

D. Oxlade, R. Maxwell & R. Scott. A Tropical Glen – A Florilegium of Belfast Botanic Gardens.

2000 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 271.41
302

Report from the Committee to whom the Marketing of Malt were referred.

1806 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 246.74
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
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    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
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    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
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    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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